Teaching Kids

Super fun weekend at Mini Makerfaire in Vancouver. I traveled over from Vancouver Island with my two oldest daughters Molly and Daisy. Awesome to meetup with Helen, Dethe, Rowan, Erik, Jeff and others from Vancouver’s Mozilla office to run a Webmaker booth. Helen and I also talked ‘Webmaker’ on the Speakers stage Sunday Afternoon. Some[…]

I keep delaying this post because I’m not sure where to start in describing my incredible trip to Athens Greece for Webmaker training days. ‘Incredible‘ only begins to describe the experience of learning, friendship, of being actually seeing Athens, and the generous Greek Mozillian community who took[…]

Back in December I wrote a blog post about creating a single collaborative (youth) open source project as a way to connect all of those map markers on the Mozparty Map. The idea was inspired youth at Mozfest who wanted to create a collaborative project on the web, and by my own life-changing experiences contributing[…]

The Open Data Day experience was awesome. I am soooo grateful to the inspirational Herb Lainchbury (Open Data Summit & Open Data Day organizer) and Victoria Councilor Marianne Alto for including our Webmaker group in Victoria’s Open Data Day Hackathon. Also to fellow mentors Scott Leslie and Loren Mullane for volunteering their time and energy[…]

I’m participating in MIT Media Lab’s experimental MOOC: Learn Creative Learning which is an exciting opportunity for more reasons than I can list ‘ . Opportunity to ‘Learn by making’ changed my life; it’s why I find Webmaker and the Maker movement so beautiful and worth championing. For whatever reason this week – I experienced[…]

I’m writing this post to start a conversation within Mozilla Reps on what running a donation-driven event means, and why it matters as a goal. However, because Mozilla Reps are located all over the world, circumstances around philanthropy differ wildly, and many are unlikely to find this post relevant to their economic systems at all.[…]

International Open Data Day is Saturday February 23rd! Victoria’s event will be held at Victoria City Hall Antechamber Room. Registration for volunteers, serious hackers, and younger Webmakers can all be done through our Eventbrite registration page! Lunch is provided. The full agenda is on the Open Data Day Wiki page, and our group’s portion will[…]

Victoria Webmaker Announcements: Wiki is UP https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker/Victoria with loads of information on Webmaker and our last Meetup January 28th. ANYONE can register their name and edit this wiki – so please do (ie: add your organization to ‘Particpating Groups, or if you have space available for events add that under ‘available rooms/spaces, fix my edits[…]

#GenOpen (‘Generation Open’!) needs your help! This spring we’ll be gathering kids and youth from all over the world to collaborate on the first Open Source project created and directed entirely by youth. They’ll learn how easy it can be to contribute to an Open Source project, while making something really cool in collaboration with[…]

At least this is the proposal so far… Looking at the Mozparty Map, I see potential to build something big together, with kids, youth, parents and with the support of mentors running those events. I see opportunity to touch on pretty much ALL of the Web Literacies , while encouraging participation in[…]